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The sustainable development oxymoron: quantifying and modelling the incompatibility of sustainable development goals
Authors:Viktoria Spaiser  Shyam Ranganathan  Ranjula Bali Swain  David J T Sumpter
Institution:1. School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UKv.spaiser@leeds.ac.uk;3. Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA;4. School of Social Sciences, S?dert?rn University, Stockholm, Sweden;5. Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (MISUM), Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden;6. Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Abstract:ABSTRACT

In 2015, the UN adopted a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to eradicate poverty, establish socioeconomic inclusion and protect the environment. Critical voices such as the International Council for Science (ICSU), however, have expressed concerns about the potential incompatibility of the SDGs, specifically the incompatibility of socio-economic development and environmental sustainability. In this paper, we test, quantify and model the alleged inconsistency of SDGs. Our analyses show which SDGs are consistent and which are conflicting. We measure the extent of inconsistency and conclude that the SDG agenda will fail as a whole if we continue with business as usual. We further explore the nature of the inconsistencies using dynamical systems models, which reveal that the focus on economic growth and consumption as a means for development underlies the inconsistency. Our models also show that there are factors which can contribute to development (health programmes, government investment) on the one hand and ecological sustainability (renewable energy) on the other, without triggering the conflict between incompatible SDGs.
Keywords:Sustainable development goals  sustainable development  dynamical systems modelling  factor analysis  feature selection  UN data revolution
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